Monday, April 27, 2020

Peter Sellers and Neil Simon? It's After the Fox!

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The Fox masquerades as a director. Imagine Peter Sellers starring in a comedy written by Neil Simon and directed by Vittorio De Sica ( B...
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Thursday, April 23, 2020

Debbie Reynolds as The Singing Nun

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Debbie Reynolds in the title role. In 1963, a Belgian nun named Sœur Sourire--also known as The Singing Nun--had a worldwide hit record ...
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Monday, April 20, 2020

Seven Things to Know About Donald O'Connor

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1. Show business was in his blood. His father, John, worked as an acrobat, clown, trapeze artist, and strong man for the Ringling Brothers a...
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Thursday, April 16, 2020

The Original Bad News Bears

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Tatum O'Neal and Walter Matthau. Time has been kind to The Bad News Bears , a 1976 baseball comedy pairing a grumpy Walter Matthau w...
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Monday, April 13, 2020

The Five Best Walter Matthau Performances

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1.  The Taking of Pelham One Two Three  (1974) - Four men hijack a New York subway and hold the passengers for ransom, demanding that $1 mil...
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Thursday, April 9, 2020

The Alternate Movie Title Game (Volume 5 - Errol Flynn Edition)

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Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a classic movie and ask you to name the actual film. Most of these ar...
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Monday, April 6, 2020

Kotch: Lemmon Directs and Matthau Acts

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Walter Matthau as Kotch. Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau had acted together in two films when they made Kotch in 1971. This collaboration...
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Thursday, April 2, 2020

Up Periscope: Early James Garner

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The same night that he proposes marriage to a recent acquaintance, Navy Lieutenant Kenneth Braden (James Garner) is whisked away to conduct ...
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Monday, March 30, 2020

Cinema '62: A Book Review

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In their new book Cinema '62: The Greatest Year at the Movies , authors Stephen Farber and Michael McClellan set out to dispel the popul...
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Monday, March 23, 2020

Kirk Douglas's Lonely Are the Brave

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Of all the films he made, Kirk Douglas listed  Lonely Are the Brave  (1962) as his favorite. Yet, this unusual contemporary Western was not ...
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Thursday, March 19, 2020

Neil Simon's Murder By Death

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Peter Falk as Sam Diamond. Wealthy eccentric Lionel Twain has invited the world's six greatest detectives to his isolated mansion fo...
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Monday, March 16, 2020

David Janssen in Birds of Prey

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The KBEX traffc helicopter. One of the first "water cooler" movies I can remember is the 1973 CBS telepic Birds of Prey . I...
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Thursday, March 12, 2020

The Alternate Movie Title Game (Volume 4 - Disney Edition)

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Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a classic movie and ask you to name the actual film. Most of these ar...
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Monday, March 9, 2020

Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick as The Snoop Sisters

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Mildred Natwick and Helen Hayes. Over a decade before Angela Lansbury starred in Murder, She Wrote , Helen Hayes played an elderly myste...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Author-Movie Blogger John Greco Discusses His New Book "The Late Show"

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John Greco--author, movie blogger, and photographer—just published his third collection of short stories, The Late Show and Other Tales of C...
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Monday, March 2, 2020

Clint Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales

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While Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven (1992) racked up the critical accolades, I still maintain that the best Eastwood-directed Western is T...
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Thursday, February 27, 2020

Seven Things to Know About Angie Dickinson

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1. Angie Dickinson's favorite film role was as the sexy housewife who is brutally murdered after an adulterous encounter in Brian De Pal...
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